Szwedzi w Warszawie

Walery Przyborowski

Pisana w czasie zaborów powieść przenosi czytelnika w historyczne czasy świetności Rzeczypospolitej. Wartka akcja skupiona wokół poszukiwania skarbu ukrytego w warszawskich lochach zaspokaja czytelniczy apetyt przygody. Sympatię budzą znakomicie wykreowani bohaterowie obdarzeni zarówno heroizmem, jak i zwykłymi ludzkimi przywarami i śmiesznostkami.

Michaels Evil Deeds

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Michaels Evil Deeds (and they are very evil at times) is a rather ingenious crime novel in more ways than one. Firstly the 11 chapters each represent a separate incident but overall they do link together, if on occasions somewhat loosely. And secondly the tale is told by various of the protagonists so there is often a different point of view within each chapter.

Poezja romantyzmu

Praca zbiorowa

Wybór poezji europejskiego romantyzmu pozwala rozsmakować się w czarowanych słowami krajobrazach uczuć, myśli, emocji, przeżyć i fantazji. W świat ludzkich cierpień i do krainy baśni zabiorą tacy mistrzowie pióra jak George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Adam Mickiewicz, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Aleksander Puszkin, Friedrich Schiller, Juliusz Słowacki.

Caves of Terror

Talbot Mundy

A collection of crime fiction short stories featuring Mme. Rosika Storey and her resourceful assistant Bella Brickley. Mme. Storey unravels complex cases with thorough investigation and an understanding of human nature. These short stories are written through Bella Brickleys point-of-view. She is Madame Storey, like Sherlock has fantastic powers of deduction and understanding of psychology, and her secretary is like Watson though she doest have a degree in medicine. Also Ms. Brickley adds a realistic persons fear to very dangerous situations. The short stories in this collection are: "The Almost Perfect Murder", "Murder in Masquerade", "The Death Notice", "Taken for a Ride", "It Never Got Into The Papers".

Les Huit Coups de lhorloge

Maurice Leblanc

Les huit coups de lhorloge est une série de huit aventures, que nous offre une rangée des talents et de la finesse desprit dArsene Lupin. Cest lépoque avant la guerre, ce sont les événements les plus incompréhensibles et les énigmes les plus compliqués pour résoudre. Il y a beaucoup de questions et en mme temps il ny a pas de réponses... Mais le prince Serge Rénine pouvons-nous dire Arsene Lupin? nest pas dupe. Il est sr, que cest son jeu.

Lekarz mimo woli

Molier

Znakomita, prześmiewcza komedia w iście Molierowskim stylu. Pewien lekkoduch zostaje wplątany w medyczno-miłosną intrygę przez niefortunny splot okoliczności ma uzdrowić córkę możnego pana z niezwykłej przypadłości. I choć medykiem bynajmniej nie jest, nie sposób wymigać się od zadania. Molier jak zwykle trafia w sedno ludzkiej natury, wyśmiewając znane we wszystkich epokach postawy.

Queen of the Dawn. A Love Tale of Old Egypt

H. Rider Haggard

Queen of the Dawn is an ancient Egyptian fantasy. The beginning of the story is very rapidly developing, from the very beginning the pharaon dies. And the daughter of Pharaoh is forced to hide. She meets and falls in love with the usurpers disguised son. The end is full of adventures and bright battles.

La Curée

Émile Zola

Le personnage principal veut augmenter le bruissement de largent dans ses poches. Lhistoire de laventurier et joueur déchange Aristide Saqqara, qui gagne de largent avec tout. Les projets de restructuration de Paris ouvrent un large champ a la fraude financiere. Le désir dobtenir le plus dargent possible rend le protagoniste anormal.

The Tragic Muse

Henry James

The Tragic Muse is dedicated to the conflict between the artist and society. Painter Nick Dormer suffers because he does not find recognition, actress Miriam Ruth, in the name of success, makes compromises with his conscience, understanding what the rich audience expects of her. However, the greatest success of this work was the image of Gabriel Nash.

Who Killed the Husband

Hulbert Footner

Mappin is a wealthy New York criminologist and author who is highly valued by the police and high society. He participates only in those crimes that really interest him. And in Who Killed the Husband he investigates solely because all the people around him beg him to take action. In this story, a detective investigates the murder of a banker. The killer who, according to the police have already found.

Ivanhoe. A Romance

Walter Scott

Ivanhoe, the son of a Saxon nobleman, returns to England from the Crusades. Prince John is Regent in the absence of his brother, King Richard the Lionhearted who is imprisoned in Austria. Saxons have not accepted their Norman conquerors and there is much animosity between them. Ivanhoe arrives at court just as a jousting tournament begins and bests the three Norman noblemen who have agreed to take on all comers. Ivanhoe is seriously injured however and is cared for by Isaac of York and his beautiful daughter Rebecca. They are taken prisoner however, along with Ivanhoes father Cedric and his ward Rowena, by the three knights Ivanhoe bested in the tournament. With the assistance of Robin Hood, the mysterious Black Knight attacks the castle of Front-de-Boeuf where the captives are being held. Its left to Ivanhoe to rescue to rescue Rebecca however when she is accused of being a witch.

Anielka

Bolesław Prus

Doskonały portret psychologiczny trzynastoletniej dziewczynki o imieniu Anielka. Dziewczyna jest córką dziedzica, który okazuje się próżniakiem i utracjuszem rujnującym rodzinny majątek. Anielka, będąc dziewczyną dobrą, wrażliwą i spostrzegawczą, przeżywa głębokie rozczarowanie, kiedy widzi, jak głęboko życiowa praktyka odbiega od oficjalnie głoszonych w jej środowisku zasad moralnych. Dom Anielki rozpada się z winy nieudolnego ojca, a ona sama także umiera w niedostatku, nie mogąc znieść śmierci matki.

The Film Mystery

Arthur B. Reeve

The Gold of the Gods was first published in 1915. By then, Arthur Benjamin Reeves series of mysteries involving Professor Craig Kennedy and his sidekick, journalist Walter Jameson, had become something of a household name. Altogether, he wrote 18 novels featuring these two characters, and several short stories. Our story follows a theft of an ancient Inca dagger from an archeology professor. He asks Kennedy to assist in bringing it back. But there are threats beyond ones of mortal men, which follow that relic dagger. Kennedy now must follow the trail of blood, spilled by the dagger. Will he overcome the darkness that he is about to face?

The Magnificent Hoax

E. Phillips Oppenheim

Captain Jan Henderson master of the cargo ship Henrietta Anne trading between London and Holland is working with mysterious conspirators (Sir Gregory Fawsitt and Lady Judith Martellon) to smuggle goods from Holland to London. His deck boy, David, falls in love with Judy, a pretty dancer. When Anthony Loman, an haggard traveler, staggers up the stairs of the tenement house at Bunters Buildings, Judy listens while he is flung to his death. As Police Sergeant Sanders investigation draws closer to the truth, will the killers be brought to justice? The Magnificent Hoax is a novel of drug-smuggling with yacht cruises to the Orient, Scotland Yard, aristocratic beauties and Londons waterfront.

Les Gens de Bureau

Émile Gaboriau

Les gens de bureau est un récit plaisant et en mme temps une une tres bonne satyre de ladministration du XIX siecle. Ici vous pouvez trouver les paralleles faire avec lactuelle ou reconnaître quelques collegues dans les descriptions des fonctionnaires. Avec le portrait dun jeune homme, Romain Caldas, Gaboriau réalise le portrait de différents types demployés et de leurs miseres. Est-ce que le travail dans ladministration publique a bien changé?

The Adventures of a Suburbanite

Ellis Parker Butler

A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book The Adventures of a Suburbanite includes two chapters on golf: The Royal Game and Advanced Golf. The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles with an automobile. Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. Find out!

Życie Henryka Brulard

Stendhal

Autobiografia Stendhala we wspaniałym przekładzie na język polski autorstwa Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego. Historia losu pisarza. Szczera i intrygująca powieść będącą podróżą do słonecznej Italii.

Perkins of Portland. Perkins the Great

Ellis Parker Butler

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today hes almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Perkins of Portland are amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with moralistic endings where the sharps come to grief, Perkins and Co. become wealthy and quite pleased with themselves.

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Twain begins his story by telling of the Mississippi river and some of its origins. He describes several facts that gives the reader a little bit of information of its discovery. After covering the history of the river, Twain shifts to his history with the river. Growing up near the river created Twains dream as a child to become a steamboat pilot. Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is expressive of the structure, style and high humour that is the very essence of Twain the writer. Spiced with Twains pungent observations and commentaries on the culture and society of the great river valley, the book is a wonderful collection of lively anecdotes, tall tales and character sketches; historical facts and information; and reminiscences of the authors boyhood and experiences as a steamboat pilot.

The Saving Clause

H.C. McNeile

A collection of nine superb Sapper stories. Of course, in the stories are present Ronald Standish and Bulldog Drummond. Two indispensable hero. They again take up their lovely deal, begin to solve various crimes. They are crazy in their own business. Detectives are so obsessed with crime that they are ready to do anything.

Der Geist des Llano estakado

Karl May

Im Llano estakado, einer trockenen Hochebene, treiben die sogenannten Geier ihr Unwesen: diese Verbrecher verändern die Wegmarkierungen und berauben dann die verdursteten Menschen. Einhalt gebieten konnte ihnen bisher niemand, aber ein geheimnisvoller Geist jagt nun seit einiger Zeit diese Geier und tötet sie durch einen Schuss in die Stirn. Der Geist entpuppt sich als Bloody-Fox, der als Kind blutend und ohne Erinnerung im Llano neben seinen ermordeten Eltern gefunden wurde. Bloody Fox ist ein Waisenkind, dessen Eltern den berittenen Räubern aus dem gefürchteten Llano Estacado zum Opfer gefallen sind. Er kennt eine geheime Oase mitten im Llano, die den Ausgangspunkt seiner Rachezüge bildet. Er startet seinen Rachefeldzug, aber da gibt es auch noch den Geisterreiter und eine Oase, die es in sich hat.

Три сестры (Trzy siostry)

Антон Павлович Чехов, Anton Pawłowicz Czechow

«Три сестры» 2013 одна из самых известных пьес А.П.Чехова. Три генеральские дочки, выросшие в Москве, заброшены судьбой в маленький провинциальный городок. Поначалу им кажется, что впереди 2013 радостная жизнь, множество планов, счастливая любовь, возвращение в любимую столицу. Но постепенно скука и однообразие провинциальной жизни разбивают в прах все их мечты...Антон Чехов в очередной раз в красках описал жизнь российского общества начала двадцатого века. Это жизнь в мечтах, которым не суждено сбыться. Москва в пьесе выступает в качестве символа 2013 недостижимой цели, к которой стремятся герои, но так и не предпринимают попыток ее достичь. Мечта так и останется мечтой..

Koń na wzgórzu i inne opowiadania

Eugeniusz Małaczewski

Poruszający zbiór opowieści, opisujący przeżycia Eugeniusza Małaczewskiego podczas wojny polsko-bolszewickiej 1920 roku. Publikacja zawiera krótkie utwory prozatorskie autora, które mimo upływu czasu nie straciły na aktualności.

Conan the Conqueror

Robert E. Howard

In this final (chronologically) Conan story, Howard demonstrates why he was one of the best adventure writers of all time. In the only novel he ever produced, Howard is able to maintain the blistering pace he is known for, while still weaving a complex and interesting tale. The story is set during Conans time as King of Aquilonia, which is a period in the heros life often overlooked.